Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

I would have to look back to see what is the breakdown between pre and post local authority involvement. Certainly, the pace at which people have moved into pledged accommodation has picked up since the local authorities have become involved. One of the things we have been able to do through their involvement is to target rest centres or temporary accommodation - the emergency accommodation in which Ukrainians have been placed on arrival - and to try to encourage, in an intensive and targeted way, people in those centres to take offers of pledged accommodation. One of the challenges we realised we were up against early on in the process was that people who were in fully-serviced hotel accommodation were not interested in taking up pledged accommodation. There are additional costs involved, for example, in living independently.